Lottery is an opportunity. Betting on horse races is an opportunity. Paying a visit to your local casino may be an opportunity. ZCoin isn't an "opportunity", it's one of the most advanced cryptocurrencies ever released, built upon rock-solid technology. Did you read the Zerocoin protocol whitepaper? Do you even know what a zero-knowledge proof is? All I can see here it's a vocal minority of minus habens spreading FUD and misinformation that don't have the foggiest idea of all the benefits that truly anonymous cryptocurrencies can bring to everybody.

this is still not an original idea, it's a zcash clone, launched early because of the zcash hype

Yeah especially since most of us never use our Celerons for CPU mining ever. And they almost use no power what so ever.

Lottery is an opportunity. Betting on horse races is an opportunity. Paying a visit to your local casino may be an opportunity. ZCoin isn't an "opportunity", it's one of the most advanced cryptocurrencies ever released, built upon rock-solid technology. Did you read the Zerocoin protocol whitepaper? Do you even know what a zero-knowledge proof is? All I can see here it's a vocal minority of minus habens spreading FUD and misinformation that don't have the foggiest idea of all the benefits that truly anonymous cryptocurrencies can bring to everybody.

this is still not an original idea, it's a zcash clone, launched early because of the zcash hype

Maybe zcash it's not original sice zcoin was released early. And it's 1.5 years development old.Zcash is a fork of zcoin. Since zcoin is out and real, zcash is still in testnet.

ah didn't know about this, so zcoin was actually the first one? i remember that at the beginning it was going to be a part of the bitcoin blockchain, then they made it separate

I compiled the dev branch version of zcoind and started it on an old low performance laptop (where I already had the former version of zcoind running and the blockchain synced).It started in approximately 3 minutes and besides "Verifying last 288 blocks at level 3" had no delay.

I compiled the dev branch version of zcoind and started it on an old low performance laptop (where I already had the former version of zcoind running and the blockchain synced).It started in approximately 3 minutes and besides "Verifying last 288 blocks at level 3" had no delay.

Lottery is an opportunity. Betting on horse races is an opportunity. Paying a visit to your local casino may be an opportunity. ZCoin isn't an "opportunity", it's one of the most advanced cryptocurrencies ever released, built upon rock-solid technology. Did you read the Zerocoin protocol whitepaper? Do you even know what a zero-knowledge proof is? All I can see here it's a vocal minority of minus habens spreading FUD and misinformation that don't have the foggiest idea of all the benefits that truly anonymous cryptocurrencies can bring to everybody.

this is still not an original idea, it's a zcash clone, launched early because of the zcash hype

Do you even read bro? Zerocoin protocol(zcoin) and zerocash protocol(zcash) are two different things.